The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
-Swami Vivekananda
Quotations
God
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
-Peter Farb "Peter Farb and George Armelagos"
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
-Sant Rajinder Singh "Sant Rajinder Singh"
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
-Ayn Rand
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
-Joseph Roux
"Meditations of a Parish Priest”"
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
-Rabindranath Tagore
"Stray Birds"
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and future.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world, manifest in each of us, she can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.
-Anonymous "Star hawk"
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
-Rabindranath Tagore
